814 Quotes About John-green

The Filosoof was right next to the Vondelpark, Amsterdam’s most famous park.

To be fair, you still look pretty bad.

I just don’t want you to see...all this. I just want, like...It doesn’t matter. You don’t always get what you want.

Is that so? I’d always thought the world was a wish-granting factory.

Duly impressed by the Shakespearean complexity of your tragedy.

Were she better or you sicker, then the stars would not be so terribly crossed, but it is the nature of stars to cross, and never was Shakespeare more wrong than when he had Cassius note, “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars / But in ourselves

Easy enough to say when you’re a Roman nobleman (or Shakespeare!), but there is no shortage of fault to be found amid our stars.

Not marble, nor the gilded monuments / Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme; / But you shall shine more bright in these contents / Than unswept stone, be smear’d with sluttish time.” (Off topic, but: What a slut time is. She screws everybody.)

It’s a fine poem but a deceitful one: We do indeed remember Shakespeare’s powerful rhyme, but what do we remember about the person it commemorates?